SKM-19 Archive

Notes Archive

12/27/2020

• We're at Vibreclean, a front to tunnel into caves under the city
• We enter the building, and Pepper "Fonzie's" the employee's only door
• We head back into the building of automated laundry machines
• Bun and Pepper note a loose panel that opens to lead down to a basement, we head down
• We come to a 10x15 cinder block room and Crash spots a loose area that leads to a downward slope...
• We enter the "Caves of Pilgrimage"
• We come across a box with an electronic lock--luckily, we have the keycard. (Phew)
• We move a curtain to reveal a series of holograms and a weird, gross lichen
• The holograms seem to be something that depicts Shirren "culture" and how choices are varying in weight
• Suddenly, a giant fungus monster starts beating our asses (namely Bunn's)
• We drop the fungus then walk through an illusiary wall
• On the hallway walls, Pepper notices carvings in the wall that represent space travel... longer and longer as we go down the hallway
• We find some traps. but it's fine
• We come to some writing/baas reliefs in Shirren that's about "The Dawn of Friendship," a peaceful time and Shirren shaking hands with multiple races of people
• We enter a small shrine area where there is a poem carved into the western wall
  • There's a wrapped package and some half-burned incense (not recent)
  • There's a list of Shirren names, seems to be lists of crew member
  • The Poem is slightly eroded, but the poem is about loss and mourning, grief, growth, and change.
    • This must be lists of Shirren ships that were lost
• We come across a flooded room, 4ft deep
• Bunn goes to walk in the water but Scout stops him, "I don't need to breathe, so if I need to swim it's not an issue"
• Scout steps in the water and is IMMEDIATELY attacked by a FUCKING SNAKE-SHARK
• 2 rounds later he is SWALLOWED WHOLE, but not before he crits the beast and knocks its dex down -2
• Everyone is screaming.
• Scout gets knocked unconscious in this monster's body
• The gang kills the monster and BARELY manages to get him out of the stomach in time to save him
• We heal up a little then head across the now cleared water
• We come across a tall amber column that gives off a slight warmth
• There is a shrine with an insectoid head carved in it
• A hologram of a Shirren appears, then turns into motes of light...
• Bunn identifies that the column has deep healing magic
  • SUDDENLY THE COLUMN DISENTEGRATES
• AND A GIANT BUG APPEARS
• FUCK
• We barely survive the fight, Bunn delivering the final blow on his final hit point
• We look into one more room after the fight to find a bunch of styff
  • We find some keepsakes from another planet, each one is filled with shades of viscious oily fluid
    • Essentially snowglobes, Scout takes one
  • We find a trunk and Crash figures out how to open it
    • Inside we find devotional icons to Hylax
    • A set of Ceremonial Robes
    • An Antique datapad
      • The datapad has full schematics of the caves
    • There is a journal about a woman who was aiding the Pilgrims who came to her
      • Some musings of The Forever Reliquary... but no idea what it is. She looks forward to seeing it herself.
    • A long narrow box that contains a Staff of Mystic Healing
• We head back to the SDF
• Xelanon thanks us for bringing back the relics. He gives us some credits (in the doc)
• Nejerri tells us we're on temp leave aka we have a bunch of time to fully heal up
  • Time to buy new stuff, sell stuff, buy ammo
  • Scout is OUT OF BULLETS for his pistol
  • SCOUT NEEDS BETTER GUNS FOR NEXT Time
• AND WE LEVELED UP!!!!